Colin Osmond

Assistant Professor

History
Office: ART 269
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 250.807.8862
Email: colin.osmond@ubc.ca


Research Summary

Indigenous History; Community-Engaged History; Settler Colonialism; Ethnohistory; Environmental History; Labour History; Public History

Courses & Teaching

HIST 300: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada to 1876; HIST 301: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada Since 1876; HIST 383A: Canadian Settler Colonialism

Biography

I am a community-engaged historian who works collaboratively with Indigenous partners on historical projects. I have worked with Indigenous Nations as an academic, hired contract researcher, community partner, and ally across Canada, and firmly believe that the best way to inspire reconciliation is through understanding the past. I was born in Nova Scotia, but spent much of my academic career in western Canada. Before joining the History Dept. at UBCO, I held a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and was a Bora Laskin Fellow in Human Rights Research at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.

Websites

pictoulandingmikmaq.usask.ca

Degrees

PhD, University of Saskatchewan
MA, University of Saskatchewan
BA, Simon Fraser University

Research Interests & Projects

I am currently working with the Tla’amin Nation on a book project to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of their ground-breaking 2016 Final Agreement in 2026. This book will highlight the history of the creation of the ‘Sliammon Indian Band’ in the late 19th Century and detail the Tla’amin’s efforts over the next 125 years to unburden themselves from the Indian Act – a feat they accomplished in 2016.

I am also re-working part of my doctoral dissertation into a book on the history of Settler Colonialism in Piktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Pictou County, Nova Scotia). This project is based on my ongoing partnership with the Pictou Landing First Nation.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Osmond, Colin M. “Logging, Laughing, and Staying Alive: The New Ethnohistory and Coast Salish Reflections on Dangerous Work in the Woods.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 109, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 120-134.

Osmond, Colin M. “I Was Born a Logger: Stó:lō Identities Forged in the Forest.” In Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River, eds., Keith Carlson, John S. Lutz, David Schaepe, and Sonny McHalsie. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018.

Co-Authored Articles/Chapters:

Carlson, Keith Thor, Albert “Sonny” McHalsie, Colin Osmond, and Tsandlia Van Ry, “The Collaboration Spectrum: Reflections on Community-Engaged Scholarship in a Historical Study of Gendered Territoriality among the Stó:lõ”, in Benjamin J. Barnes & Stephen Warren, eds., Replanting Cultures: Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country (New York: SUNY Press 2022.

Carlson, Keith, and Colin Osmond. “Clash at Clayoquot: Manifestations of Colonial and Indigenous Power in Pre Settler Colonial Canada (The Overlooked 1792 Journals of David Lamb and Jacob Herrick).” Western Historical Quarterly vol. 28, no. 2 (2017): 159-188.

Co-Authored Books:

Carlson, Keith; Osmond, Colin; Hutton, Norman. The Lodge We Built: 100 Years of Freemasonry in Powell River. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Community- Engaged Collaboratorium, 2016.

Non-Refereed Articles:

Osmond, Colin M. “A’Se’k – Boat Harbour: A Site of Centuries’ Long Mi’kmaw Resistance,” Active History, Oct. 18 2019.

Batwell, Emma, and Colin M. Osmond, “Salmon and Christianity”, Active History, May 20 2019.

Osmond, Colin. “The Collaboratorium – University of Saskatchewan Launches Initiative in Community-Engaged History.” Active History, July 26 2016.

Osmond, Colin. “’We made a strong statement for First nations loggers, plus we put on a good salmon BBQ!’: Aboriginal Logging Sports and Masculinity in British Columbia.” NiCHE, April 4 2016.

Selected Grants & Awards

2021- SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Bora Laskin Human Rights Research Fellow; 2016-2020 – SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship; 2014-2016 – SSHRC MA Fellowship

Media

“Historian Publishes on centuries-old struggle for Boat Harbour”, Saltwire News, Nov. 13 2019.

 

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